Dev Samol (Devid Samol), born in 2002 in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, currently lives and works in Magandjin/Brisbane, Australia.

Samol’s drawing and painting practise blends memories and symbolism from their upbringing in Cambodia with current experiences and surroundings, blurring past and present. Figurative compositions drawn from life are inter-spliced with autobiographical narrative features, bringing traumatic and complex experiences and relationships to the surface.

Samol uses a signature blue in their palette, employing an expressive, improvisational approach to mark making.